Currently, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan. Akira Yamauchi graduated from Nagasaki University, School of Medicine (Nagasaki, Japan) in 1995 and trained at the Second Tokyo National Hospital (Tokyo, Japan). He got Ph.D. degree at Nagasaki University Graduate School in 2001 and joined Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Indiana University School of Medicine (Indianapolis, USA) as a post-doctoral fellow. And then he worked at the University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) as an assistant professor and also at ECI, inc. as a director. Since 2010, he has been working at the current position. His major is analysis of host defense system and cell migration.